Cold temperatures aren’t all bad
It’s January 12h and so far the New Year has been the deep freeze, here’s how the temperatures have looked so far.
Frozen fountain in Huntersville, NC via Younews at wcnc.com
PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6)
STATION: CHARLOTTE NC
MONTH: JANUARY
YEAR: 2010
LATITUDE: 35 12 N
LONGITUDE: 80 57 W
TEMPERATURE IN F: :PCPN: SNOW: WIND :SUNSHINE: SKY :PK WND
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1 2 3 4 5 6A 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
12Z AVG MX 2MIN
DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD WTR SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX SPD DR
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1 50 31 41 -1 24 0 0.00 0.0 0 5.1 15 330 M M 7 12 20 320
2 34 19 27 -15 38 0 0.00 0.0 0 8.5 18 310 M M 1 25 300
3 34 15 25 -17 40 0 0.00 0.0 0 7.1 16 310 M M 3 22 310
4 38 17 28 -14 37 0 0.00 0.0 0 7.1 14 330 M M 0 18 320
5 38 16 27 -15 38 0 0.00 0.0 0 6.7 15 300 M M 3 23 340
6 41 18 30 -12 35 0 0.00 0.0 0 5.8 13 310 M M 0 20 310
7 47 15 31 -11 34 0 0.01 0.0 0 6.6 22 230 M M 6 8 30 220
8 36 20 28 -13 37 0 T 0.0 0 9.7 18 360 M M 8 25 350
9 37 16 27 -14 38 0 0.00 0.0 0 7.7 17 350 M M 4 21 350
10 39 17 28 -13 37 0 0.00 0.0 0 5.0 12 330 M M 0 16 330
11 45 15 30 -11 35 0 T T 0 4.2 16 190 M M 5 20 190
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SM 439 199 393 0 0.01 T 73.5 M 37
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AV 39.9 18.1 6.7 FASTST M M 3 MAX(MPH)
MISC ----> # 22 230 # 30 220
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AVERAGE MONTHLY: 29.0
DPTR FM NORMAL: -12.6
Notice all this negative numbers below average and for the month it’s –12.6° below, that is some serious cold especially after December was –4.5° below average.
It may seem like it will never get warm and you maybe are very sick of it by now but it’s not all bad. There are many good benefits from the cold. I thought I would put a sliver lining on the deep freeze, with my 6 reasons the cold isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Some humor and some real benefits and in no particular order. LOL
#6 If you have a warm season grass like Bermuda you can finally kill it off and get it our of the yard. It’s not hard to miss since it’s almost pure white by now next to your fescue grass.
#5 If you have a dog you know picking up after them can be a pain, at least now the poop is frozen and very easy to dispose of.
#4 You have a built in excuse to not exercise outdoors, wash you car, do yard work or do anything that requires you to be outside for longer than 15 minutes. (except golf it’s never too cold to golf)
#3 You get to wear all those awesome warm weather clothes you have in your closet but never get to wear.
#2 No mud to worry about since the ground is frozen you can’t track it in your house.
#1 All those pesky insects are being killed off, mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, termites, cockroaches and dare I say the Canker worms. They won’t all die but it sure gives us a fighting chance in the spring!
